# Still: From Akira to Ink Wash, Building a Generative Garden in WebGPU

DevFeed: [Still: From Akira to Ink Wash, Building a Generative Garden in WebGPU](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/still-from-akira-to-ink-wash-building-a-generative-garden-in-webgpu-4346.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tympanus.net/codrops/2026/09/09/still-from-akira-to-ink-wash-building-a-generative-garden-in-webgpu/>)

Author: Ming Jyun Hung

Published: 2026-09-09T14:11:57Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Codrops](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codrops.md>)

Topics: [webgpu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webgpu.md>), [procedural flowers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/procedural-flowers.md>)

Tags: [3d](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/3d.md>), [articles](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/articles.md>), [case-study](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-study.md>), [creative-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/creative-coding.md>), [deep-dive](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deep-dive.md>), [flower-animation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/flower-animation.md>), [generative](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative.md>), [generative-art](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-art.md>), [generative-garden](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-garden.md>), [generative-tendrils](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-tendrils.md>), [gpu-instancing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu-instancing.md>), [ink-wash-effect](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ink-wash-effect.md>), [interactive-3d](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interactive-3d.md>), [japanese-art](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/japanese-art.md>), [japanese-print-style](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/japanese-print-style.md>), [procedural](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/procedural.md>), [procedural-animation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/procedural-animation.md>), [procedural-art](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/procedural-art.md>), [procedural-flowers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/procedural-flowers.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [real-time-3d](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time-3d.md>), [three-js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/three-js.md>), [three-js-case-study](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/three-js-case-study.md>), [three-js-shading-language](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/three-js-shading-language.md>), [toon-shading](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/toon-shading.md>), [tsl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tsl.md>), [tsl-shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tsl-shaders.md>), [vat](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vat.md>), [vertex-animation-textures](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vertex-animation-textures.md>), [webgpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webgpu.md>), [webgpu-shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webgpu-shaders.md>)

## AI overview

A technical deep dive into a WebGPU-based, real-time 3D generative garden. It describes combining toon shading, ink-wash shadows, silk-like grain, and procedural flowers and tendrils to translate Japanese print-inspired visual principles into an interactive web scene.

## Source excerpt

A technical deep dive into Still, exploring how WebGPU, procedural systems, and Japanese art influences come together to create a living generative garden.